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Weakened Hurricane Bud to Hit Mexico

Rob Quinn — Fri, 25 May 2012 05:00:00 CDT

Residents of Mexico's central Pacific coast have been warned that this Bud's for them. Hurricane Bud, the first Pacific hurricane of the season, has weakened to a Category 2 storm and is headed in the direction of the tourist city of Puerto Vallarta, where swimming has temporarily been banned, reports...

Mexican Candidate Goes Topless in Ads

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 22 May 2012 02:00:00 CDT

How do you wake up voters? If you're a female candidate you could whip off your top. That's the strategy of a philosophy professor who wants to be in Mexico's congress. Natalia Juarez, 34, gave her campaign a jolt by posing for a head-turning billboard ad with six other women,...

Mexican Novelist Carlos Fuentes Dead at 83

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:56:54 CDT

Author Carlos Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America's novel-writing boom by delving into the failed ideals of the Mexican revolution, died today in a Mexico City hospital at age 83. Mexico's National Council for Culture for the Arts confirmed the death of Mexico's most celebrated novelist. The...

49 Bodies Dumped on Mexican Highway

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 13 May 2012 11:27:52 CDT

Mexico today made the latest grisly discovery in its drug war: 49 bodies, some of which were mutilated, were dumped along a highway connecting the northern city of Monterrey with the US border, reports the AP . The 43 men and six women were found early this morning in the town...

18 Headless Bodies Dumped Near Mexico Tourist Spot

Rob Quinn — Fri, 11 May 2012 02:00:00 CDT

There's no end in sight to the horrific tit-for-tat Mexican drug cartel murders. In the latest atrocity, some 18 decapitated and dismembered corpses were found dumped in two cars near a lake in Guadalajara popular with tourists and retired Americans, reports ABC . The bodies, which were so badly mutilated that...

Mexico Investigates 6th-Graders' Sex Video

Thu, 10 May 2012 13:55:50 CDT

Authorities in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Campeche said yesterday they are investigating a tape depicting sixth-graders filming themselves having sex inside their school. State Education Department spokesman Omar Kantun said the video was apparently made in an empty classroom during recess in late April. "It is real, the case...

Cleavage Throws Mexican Presidential Debate a Curve

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 08 May 2012 02:00:00 CDT

A televised Mexican presidential debate looked more like an episode of Wheel of Fortune thanks to a babealicious production assistant's cleavage-baring gown. She was so eye-popping that Mexico's election commission apologized. "We are sorry about the production error associated with the clothing of one of the assistants, and want to...

Now Your Dog Poop Can Pay for WiFi

Matt Cantor — Sun, 06 May 2012 14:42:05 CDT

Mexico City's parks are about to get wireless Internet—and a whole lot cleaner. Mexican Internet provider Terra is setting up stations where dog owners can deposit Fido's leavings in exchange for free WiFi, broadcast from bone-shaped routers, CNET reports. Need more time online? Give your dog a bigger breakfast,...

Photojournalists Murdered in Mexico

Rob Quinn — Fri, 04 May 2012 03:13:46 CDT

Somebody in Mexico's Veracruz state has declared war on news photographers. The dismembered bodies of three photojournalists from different news organizations were found in plastic bags in a canal yesterday—World Press Freedom Day—along with the body of one photographer's girlfriend, AP reports. All the bodies bore sign of...